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I did the same thing at around this same time; I'm glad to know I have a companion in this

They're rerunning the Salzburg Carmen from the late 1960s on Arte and it's awe-inspiring what kinds of hairspray technology were apparently available in late 19th century Seville

considering adding an extra day to a backpacking trip next month just so i can go to a really good ice cream place again

Just realized I'm developing parasocial relationships with multiple Antiques Roadshow appraisers

The captions say wizened, so I'm not sure. And I think wizened hands makes sense in context - they are being caught by the hands of those who came before them.

what is it with people on severance mispronouncing wizened

The Trump Administration Just Deleted Part of American History. If They Get Away With It, We Could Be Headed to a Very Dark Place. This is far more serious than the loss of a few letters.

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

You're wrong about most of this. Marsha was uptown when the riots started; Sylvia was in Washington Square Park, near Stonewall, where a lot of street queers lived. Both were at the Riots later in the evening, and on the many days they lasted after - Stonewall wasn't a one day event

Gay liberation implies liberation for all people. We are not only demanding our rights, affirming our pride, we are tell all people to do the same, to discover themselves, to celebrate their own unique beauty and the sense of their shared humanity. Gay liberation demands that everyone have the right to their own lives, their own feels, their choice of sexual partners, and their own style of expression, behavior and dress. It was trransvestites who created the gay liberation movement during the Stonewall riots. If now, as it seems, we are in danger of forgetting what the movement is all about, perhaps we should turn to transvestites to remind us.

Key part:

They also love to say that it's all just modern day trans revisionism -- to which I like to point them to Ted Rauch's 1971 article "Transvestism and Gay Liberation" from Gay Activist. bsky.app/profile/lgbt...

Stupid TERFs always try to say that Marsha wasn't a trans woman & Stonewall was only gay men. Usually they're so dumb they don't even know Stonewall lasted many days. So here's a point by point refutation of their stupidity, feel free to share! bsky.app/profile/hugh...

why yes, my phone does automatically connect to the Bluetooth in my girlfriend's ex's Subaru (which she sometimes borrows)

Gonna go get a PhD in Musicology just so I can finally understand why exactly it is that the harmonies in Linger by the Cranberries go as hard as they do

My family didn't want to post about the loss of our dog yesterday because they thought it was super selfish with everything else going on (they're not on this site, so my posting here is irrelevant)

but I guess I just want people to know it's important to honor small grief amidst the big grief

The next time this administration claims to care about antisemitism, I hope we remember not only Elon's address to the AfD but also www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Not bad, all things considered. Sorry, I have notifications for this app turned off due to all the spam follows and don't open it very often 🤦🏻. How are you doing these days?

I don't think so? Why?

Me, during the last two hours of our flight this morning: *watching Legally Blonde*
@max3000.bsky.social: *reading a book about the history of eugenics*

making sure @rbirger.bsky.social is aware of this development in your life

A very belated thank you! 💜

you ever start your day trying to retail therapy a pair of shoes but somehow instead end up retail therapy-ing a German course instead

Thanks for posting about it - will have to check out soon!

the one I was talking about here got canceled due to weather but I'm hopefully leaving on one in about 36 hours 🙏🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🧿🧿

I went to a meetup for people working on queer history projects and not only was everybody nice but a huge deal historian wants to see one of my translations and also everyone loved the homemade treat I brought

Huh, interesting - I had to manually add Yiddish to mine even though it's mentioned in my profile. It did somehow know German though, possibly bc I use a bilingual keyboard on my phone?

Jen Phillips,PhD @ClutchScience: Our college kid just called--on the phone-to ask if Bon Jovi was a real person 12:43 AM • 2/12/20 55 Retweets 26 Quotes 723 Likes

Many cultures around the world have a legend of a Bon Jovi-like figure.
Germans know him as Guten Joven;
in Brazil he is Bom João

I spent a lot of yesterday wanting to pet my cat sitting near to the couch who was actually some tape on a cardboard box flapping up and down because of a ceiling fan

bees bees bees

I slept okay! Finally got the bedroom AC installed about a week ago, which has helped. How did you sleep?

Going on a boat to see seabirds you can't usually see from land!